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Old 09-23-2002, 06:40 PM   #32
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Originally posted by sdtPikachu
Take "The Longest Day" for example. Classic 3 1/4 hour war film about the D-Day invasions, dubbed "how the Americans won the war for us". How much mention does it make of all the british and french resistance intelligence work? Not an awful lot.
What are you talking about? That movie must have devoted over 5 minutes to Sean Connery marching around with a bunch of Scotsmen playing the bagpipes behind enemy lines.

Actually, if you want one of the more balanced true war story movies, I suggest you take a look at We Were Soldiers. It doesn't really have a slant (except perhaps an anti-war one). You can be sure that it had to pass through the rigorous scrutiny of my Vietnamese family before I could make a declaration like that.
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